Financial Planning Analyst
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Financial Analyst
6-month initial contract
Hybrid schedule
3 days onsite 2 days remote
Lake County, IL
$45/HR
Orion Group is hiring a Financial Analyst for a hybrid opportunity for our pharmaceutical client in Lake County.
The Financial Analyst will be responsible to complete various FP&A analysis related to ad-hoc projects, as well as supports on day-to-day operations for BTS organization.
Financial Analyst Responsibilities:
• Responsible for analyzing, communicating, and processing BTS various chargebacks.
• Works directly with Accounting Shared Service contact on monthly close processes to ensure complete, accurate, and timely monthly actual results.
• Prepare monthly actual variance analysis and commentary for P&L and headcount. Understands monthly results and communicates risks and opportunities vs. benchmarks to managers and budget owners.
• Prepare and develop drafts of monthly Integration LBEs and incorporate financial and operating management review changes.
• Meet all financial reporting requirements for the Business Group, BTS HQ and Corporate.
Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and business policies and procedures.
• Drive process developments and improvements, as well as documentations.
• Provide reconciliation and analysis on third party resource billing, charge out and savings.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and supports on various projects.
• Reports to FP&A Sr. Manager, BTS. Interact with all levels of management including BTS Managers, BTS FP&A, and Accounting COE.
Financial Analyst Qualifications:
• B.A/B.S Degree in Finance
• 6-8 years FP&A or Financial reporting
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• SAP General Ledger and SRM experience
Preferred:
• IBM Cognos TM1 experience
• MBA/CPA a plus
• Strong set of analytical skills; high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to meet tight timelines and balance workload/multiple projects.
• Build effective relationships with peers and cross functionally with business partners to enable higher performance.
• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
• Quick learner and grasps the “essence”; can change course quickly when needed.
• Continually seeks process improvements; challenges the status quo.
• Able to connect unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas.
• Initiative and ability to work independently.
Top skills/requirements:
- FP&A and accounting experience.
- Experience in MS Excel (Advanced)
- Familiar with supporting multinational company
- Manage significant volume of data
- Good communication skills/customer facing
- Multi-tasking
- Prior experience with integrations
- SAP, Excellent Excel, macros, pivots, etc
- Working with big numbers is key, 5000 plus lines of data